SAN FRANCISCO | California’s Supreme Court declared Thursday that gay couples in the nation’s most populous state can marry — a monumental victory for the gay rights movement.
LOS ANGELES | A Missouri woman was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor, who committed suicide.
Army criminal investigators are looking into damage to two military helicopters on a production line at a Boeing Co. plant in suburban Philadelphia, prompting the company to shut down the line.
A growing number of women with early stage breast cancer seem to be choosing to have the whole breast removed instead of just the cancerous lump, doctors are reporting.
A former Army Corps of Engineers consultant and a dirt subcontractor were indicted Thursday on bribery charges stemming from an investigation into levee work after Hurricane Katrina.
Construction on a huge reservoir meant to help restore the Everglades will be put on hold over a lawsuit brought by a group that fears the water could be diverted for other purposes.
Inadequate training, outdated tactics and aging equipment helped lead to the deaths of nine Charleston firefighters fighting a furniture store blaze last year, according to a long-awaited analysis by fire experts released Thursday.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. | A 6-year-old boy suspended for smacking a female classmate on the behind Tuesday at Hoagland Elementary won’t have his offense labeled as sexual harassment in his school file.
Severe storms with damaging winds and possible tornadoes pounded the South, killing at least one person in Louisiana and shattering windows at the Texas Capitol.
WASHINGTON | The House on Wednesday passed a $290 billion farm bill offering more subsidies for farmers, food stamps for the poor and special projects that lawmakers can bring home to voters.
The Bush administration will continue to send emergency assistance to Myanmar's cyclone victims despite concerns the country's military government may be confiscating the aid or diverting it away from those most in need.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. | Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday. The move comes even as Hillary Rodham Clinton refuses to give up her candidacy.
The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species Wednesday because of the loss of Arctic sea ice but also cautioned the decision should not be viewed as a path to address global warming.
PALM BAY, Fla. | Authorities arrested a man they say was seen throwing a Molotov cocktail into the woods Wednesday in this Atlantic coast town where several homes have been gutted by wildfires.
Ohio's attorney general resigned Wednesday under threat of impeachment because of a sexual harassment investigation in his office and his extramarital affair.
Voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.
ATLANTA | Permitted gun owners in Georgia will soon be allowed to carry concealed weapons in restaurants that serve alcohol, aboard public transportation and in parks under a new law observers called a significant expansion of gun rights.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. | Astronomers have discovered the youngest known supernova in the Milky Way galaxy, still just a baby at 140 years old.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. | Hillary Clinton won a large but largely symbolic victory over Barack Obama in the West Virginia primary Tuesday.
